I think it's too simple to say "this is how all generations think of the previous one." I think baby boomers, admirably, set out to create a new identity - comi

I think it's too simple to say "this is how all generations think of the previous one." I think baby boomers, admirably, set out to create a new identity - coming of age at the height of the 60s, time of prosperity meaning more independence, with Vietnam and the civil rights movements probably casting doubts about the prior generation's values (rightfully so). A clean break of sorts. I think the problem is they threw out the old, but failed to actually assert something substantial that could raise the next generation. Vague values and sentiments, really. Millennials get told to just be ourselves, find our passions, and are encouraged to party, drink, have sex... don't work too hard. Partying is treated almost as importantly if not more, as working hard to make something out of yourself and your life. Nerd culture is despised, maybe because they all watched a ton of jock 80s movies. I don't doubt a correlation between being raised on those values and the depression and mental illness rates we see today among young people... you can surely overcome it eventually, but you're raised on it by default. I'm painting with a broad stroke, but I think the baby boomers represent a sort of 'break' with the generations before them, and it didn't set up the next generation so well. My grandfather's generation, while they weren't socially progressive by any means, seems more grounded overall - they at least have access to the wisdom of many generations before.